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Hong Kong's Top Jurist Defends Indeterminate Pretrial Detention
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Hong Kong's Top Jurist Defends Indeterminate Pretrial Detention

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Jan 25, 2022
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Hong Kong‘s top jurist, Court of Final Appeal Chief Justice Andrew Cheung Kui-nung, has effectively defended the indeterminate pretrial detentions of activists in the territory’s national security cases, upholding months of delays by prosecutors to put 47 opposition activists, many of them former lawmakers, on trial.

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